How are you all? I hope you enjoyed the romantic scene with Rouge and
Knuckles. I've always thought they would make a good couple. And I decided
to give them a bit of closure, instead of leaving you speculating like in
the real Sonic Adventure 2. That's also part of why I did the whole
Shadow/Amy thing and the Chao love. However, I am sad to say that the
happiness in the last couple of chapters must come to a cease. This chapter
and the next are the end of the Hero Story. After it's done, I'll write the
Dark Story, and then the Last Story. I think you will like both. In the
meantime, as I said, things are about to get far more serious. Starting
here, the fun is over. I assure you, there will be more than one real death
before it's finished. You'll be reaching for tissues after this level is
over, because the cutscene after is one of the most sad and touching of
all. One more thing. Whatever you do, in this story or the Dark one, do NOT
feel sorry for Snively. Not even for a moment.
Disclaimer: I only own the Passion, Angel, Devil, Eggchao, the Chao egg,
the Snivel Walker, and some other stuff. (Oh, and I changed my mind, Sonic
is not going to appear in this universe at all. Also, I am not even
remotely trying to suggest a Sonic/Tails relationship. That would be
disgusting! Actually, I originally considered using Robotnik as the Hero
walker character and giving Amy missions of her own. But that idea
flopped.)
Day X, 11:30 PM
The door slid open. Shadow walked inside. He was inside the colony's control room; a chamber built into the shaft of the cannon. A catwalk led over the abyss to the controls in the center of the room, several circular holographic displays set at multiple levels, a complex control panel and holographic screen, and in the very center of the cylindrical mass, a pillar with seven sockets in it. A tube-like mechanism was positioned over the center of the pillar, a beam of blue light shooting from the mechanism and into the pillar. Six of the seven sockets were filled with glowing Super Emeralds. One remained empty. Shadow was relieved to finally be here, and not out in the hallways. For some reason, something about the ARK was vaguely familiar to him. Whenever he passed an intersection, he felt like there had once been somebody he had known, lots of people he had once met but were long gone. Shadow pulled out the fake Emerald and switched on his communicator. "Doctor, I've made it to the control room. What do I do now?" There was no reply. "Come on doc, talk me through this." There was still no reply. "Hello? Doctor Robotnik? Can you hear me?" "Oh, I can hear you loud and clear, Shadow." Said a nefarious voice at the other end. Shadow gasped. "Snively! What have you done with Robotnik?" Snively giggled malevolently. "Nothing, yet. If you want to save the dear doctor, the egg, and the Chao from certain death, meet me at observation deck B. I'm sure you can get there with the map that the doctor must have provided you." Shadow grimaced. "Yes, I can get there." "Good! You have five minutes. Get here too late, and the doctor, the Chao, and the egg die. Tata!" Snively cut off the line. Shadow immediately called Amy. "Amy, come in! Do you read me ?" "Loud and clear, Shadow. What is it?" she said. "Snively's got Robotnik and the Chao cornered at observation deck B! Meet me there, quickly. I don't have much time." said Shadow. "Got that, Shadow. See you soon!" Amy cut off the line. Shadow started to head for the door. He paused and turned, looking longingly at the empty socket and wishing he could just put the Emerald in and be done with it. He sighed and ran out the door.
Stage 12: Crazy Gadget. Mission: Hurry and find Snively.
Shadow started in a huge green hallway, with a very high ceiling and cool transparent flooring. He ran down the hallway, turning left as it curved that way, taking out the floating blob of Artificial Chaos in his path. He ran as far as he could and found a grating blocking his way, going up most of the height of the hallway. Noticing a large switch in front of him, Shadow thought this would be the way to lower the grating. He flipped the switch and was astonished when suddenly, gravity was reversed! He fell through the air, quickly activating his jets and landing on the ceiling. After taking a moment to adjust his bearings, he realized he could no go over, er, under the grating. He walked across the ceiling, noticing that right past the grating was a huge pool of toxic waste. Good thing he wasn't down there. He ran to the end of the ceiling, finding another switch. He flipped it, and was flung back to the ground below. He landed on normal floor, past the toxic waste. He ran through the corridor ahead, coming into a tall room with two pod machines next to a tube with an opening facing him. Guarding the tube were two Hunters with laser guns and shields. The robots raised their big shields, hiding from the danger he represented. Shadow somersaulted under the shields, destroying the robots. He jumped into the tube and was shot upward like a cannonball, coming out in a room with a huge toxic waste pit and a bridge leading right over it, stopping in front of a switch and a wall that almost touched the ceiling. Shadow ran down the bridge and hit the switch. He was flung onto the room's ceiling. He somersaulted under the wall and continued on his way. The room on the other end was tall as the last one, but not very big. Shadow hit another switch, landing on the floor again. He went through a corridor and came out in yet another huge hallway, with a toxic waste pit in front of him. He saw a rail over the waste and jumped on, grinding down its length. The rail ended at a platform in front of another pit of toxic waste. Shadow jumped onto a second rail and grinded over it, ending up on solid ground. He went forward, following into a deeper part of the room, where he was faced with a gravity switch and a floating Artificial Chaos. He killed the blob, then hit the switch, reversing gravity. Once he was on the ceiling, he saw a group of electrified Beetles and a hole in the ceiling, He ran by the Beetles and down the hole, falling into a corridor. He ran down the corridor, in the direction where the gravity switch had been in the last room, and came to a door that opened automatically as he approached. He went into the tall room and found another cool tube. He jumped into the tube and was shot to another chamber, coming out on the roof of a long room. He saw a few Artificial Chaos, which started shooting lasers at him. Shadow ran for the monsters, putting them out of their misery with a couple of homing attacks. He ran towards the wall at the end of the ceiling, where he flipped a gravity switch and landed on the floor, near lots of metal and iron crates. He hit a spring in the corner of the room, landing on the higher floor of the next room, passing under the wall on the ceiling. In front of him was another toxic pit, with a rail on either side. He chose a rail and grinded down it, coming to solid ground. A high wall almost touched the ceiling, a gravity switch at its base. Shadow flipped the gravity switch and landed on the ceiling. He somersaulted under the wall and continued on his way. He ran down the ceiling, hitting a gravity switch at the end and landing on solid ground after a toxic pit. He ran through a door and found himself on a ledge out in space. He could see several dozen floating Artificial Chaos hovering over the gap, the door back in on the other side. Shadow Homing Attacked across the chain of Artificial Chaos, landing on the ledge and running through the door. He entered a room with a pit of toxic waste in the middle and a gravity switch on the end. There was a bridge over the pit. Shadow ran across and saw for the first time, a blob of Artificial Chaos guarding the switch. As he was about to attack, the machine, the water fell off of the robot head, forming into several dozen miniature Artificial Chaos. Shadow ran back down the bridge, not wanting to get mobbed by the monsters. He curled into a ball and started spinning, charging up an attack. As lights swirled around him, he got up, a glowing hedgehog. "There's no time for games!" he yelled, before unleashing the Light Attack and wiping out every Artificial Chaos in the room. Now on the other side, Shadow hit the gravity switch and fell onto the ceiling. He somersaulted under the low wall ahead of him and hit another gravity switch, falling to the ground in front of another toxic pit. There were several floating platforms moving across the pit. Shadow jumped across the platforms, smashing Beetles that were guarding some of them. He reached the other end of the pit, entering the room beyond. Inside was another tube mechanism guarded by a pair of Shield Hunters. Shadow made quick work of the robots and jumped into the tube, shot upwards to another room. He popped out of the tube and saw he was in a corridor with a couple of Hornets. He destroyed the Hornets before they could shoot him, going through the door at the other end. He was in a room containing a long red beam with swinging spiked balls and a Beetle atop it. A door was the end. Shadow walked along the beam, jumped over the spiked balls, Homing Attacked the Beetle, and ran through the door. He was in another long room, with a barrier preventing him from walking forward. He flipped a gravity switch, landing on the ceiling. Shadow found a missile and a button to activate it. He stepped on the button, firing the missile towards a cage containing a gravity switch and destroying it. (The cage, not the switch.) Shadow ran along the ceiling and hit the switch, landing behind the barrier and in front of a catwalk between two small toxic pits. An Artificial Chaos similar to the one that had spawned miniatures before floated in the middle of the walkway. Warily, Shadow approached the robot. The Artificial Chaos spawned several dozen offspring, just as Shadow had expected. He ran back, to the edge of the barricade and curled into a ball, charging up. The spawn of Artificial Chaos wriggled closer and closer. Lights raced around Shadow. He stood up, glowing. "There's no time for games!" he yelled, unleashing the Light Attack and killing all the silicon lifeforms. He ran down the catwalk and into an alcove with a gravity switch. He flipped it, and was sent up through a hole in the alcove, falling, falling, falling, until he reached the ceiling of another huge room with plenty of enemies scattered about on multiple walls, and a big, big toxic pit on the floor. Shadow bit his lip and ran down the ceiling, destroying every Artificial Chaos in his path. At the end of the room were three gravity switches, one pointing left, one pointing down, and one pointing right. Shadow looked down and saw the toxic pit, so that obviously wasn't the right choice. He looked left and saw nothing but lots of enemies and a gravity switch that would send him to the right wall. Shrugging, he flipped the switch on the right, and was sent towards the right hand wall. He saw a rail going down and under the wall the gravity switches had been at the base at, probably leading to the exit. He killed the Hawks and Artificial Chaos in his way and jumped onto the rail, grinding down it, going inches over the toxic waste as he went under the wall and into a wide, low tunnel. The rail ended on the right wall, of course, where he flipped a gravity switch pointing downwards, landing on a platform in front of a door. He went through the door and found himself in a room with two toxic pits, a door at the far end, and another Artificial Chaos. Not wanting to bother with the spawn again, Shadow ran towards the monster and jumped up right as it unleashed its offspring, launching into a Homing Attack and destroying the monster and the little ones. He went through the door at the end, entering a room with two electric Beetles and a chain of normal ones over a pit of toxic waste. He ran to the edge of the pit and waited for the Beetles' electric shields to go down. When he did, he launched into a series of Homing Attacks, getting across the pit and running through the door at the other end. He groaned when he saw what was on the other side. He was in space again. Floating before him were several huge colored blocks, each with multiple sides, enemies, and gravity switches. There were crates, missiles, and rockets over the expanse. Right in front of him was a rocket aiming for a yellow block. He sighed and grabbed on. The rocket launched, dropping him on the highest face of the yellow block. He killed an Artificial Chaos and hit a spring, launching towards the blue block above him. Just as he thought he was going to land on it, he fell onto the lower tier of the yellow block. He followed the block to the left, finding a gravity switch. He flipped it and was sent up to the underside of the blue block. He saw a rocket near the edge and grabbed it, launching towards the red block. As he passed under it, he let go of the rocket, landing on the block's bottom. He killed the Artificial Chaos around him and saw a gravity switch. He flipped the switch, landing on the purple block below him, next to a cage containing a spring. He walked forward and to the right along the block's top, seeing a chain of stationary Beetles. He homing attacked along and up them, landing on top of the red block above the purple one. He ran to the edge of the red block, seeing he could jump to the blue one. He did so, landing on the top. He killed half a dozen Artificial Chaos and saw a missile aiming for the cage on the purple platform. He pressed the button behind the missile, launching it and destroying the cage. He ran onto a nearby spring and was launched across the gap, landing on the purple platform. He hit the spring and was launched into the air. He bounced of a hovering spring and landed on a part of the yellow block he had not noticed before. He hit the gravity switch nearby and was sent sideways, landing on the green block, next to a normal switch. He hit the switch, activating a rocket nearby. He ran to the edge of the face of the green block and jumped down, landing on a lower tier with the aforementioned rocket on it. He killed the Artificial Chaos in his way and grabbed onto the rocket, launching himself for a block below all the others. He dropped onto the block's face as he went past, landing near a Gravity Switch. He flipped the switch and was sent all the way across the void, landing on the colony's wall. Below him was a gravity switch and a ledge. Shadow ran down the wall and hit the switch, returning gravity to its normal orientation and landing on the ledge. He ran through the door on the ledge, back inside at last. He was in another room with a floating Artificial Chaos and two toxic pits. Shadow ran and jumped towards the robot, using a Homing Attack on it just before it released its children. He ran past where it had been, hitting a spring at the end of the room. He was shot upwards, landing on a high ledge. He ran through the door on the ledge and was in a room with two Shield Hunters and another tube contraption. As the Hunters took aim, Shadow somersaulted under one's shield, destroying it. He repeated the process with the second robot, clearing the room. He jumped into the tube and was shot upward, coming out in a corridor filled with Artificial Chaos, all of which started firing lasers or tried to grab them with their tentacles. With a great deal of difficulty, Shadow eliminated the machines and proceeded down the corridor, finally ending up in the hallway with doors in the sides, indicating he was out of the danger zone. He jumped through the Goal Ring at the middle of the hallway, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Shadow checked his map and went towards one of the doors in the hallway. It slowly opened as he approached, raising upwards. He went through, the door closing behind him. He was in a large round room with half of the walls covered in big picture windows. The floor was split by a metal cross of sorts, with most of the floor being made of unbreakable glass, giving a person an unobstructed view of the Earth from space. Amy and Angel were in the walker right next to the door. Amy smiled a little as he walked next to them. Shadow smiled back. At the other end of the room, Snively sat in the Snivel Walker, his gun pointed towards Robotnik. A very worried Eggchao clutched his master's leg. Devil held on tightly to the egg, looking a little scared. Snively sneered and waved the gun a little. "Ah, Shadow, you're right on time. A few seconds later and I would have put a bullet through the old man's head." "What do you want, Snively?" asked Shadow. "I know you have the Super Emerald. Come over here and give it to me, and I will let your friends go." Snively said, reaching his free hand out. Shadow kept his expression calm, smiling inside. Perfect! I can kill two birds with one stone! He thought. He pulled out the fake Emerald and started walking across the room. "I'm coming Snively. Just don't hurt the doctor or the deal's off." "I won't hurt him, Shadow. However, I expect you not to play any tricks, or the doctor gets a new breathing hole." Snively said evilly. Robotnik gulped. Shadow walked over the center of the room, where the intersection of the cross was. Suddenly, a glass tube with a weird gadget inside the top shot down from the ceiling, trapping him! He blinked, surprised. "What is this Snively, a roboticizer? You've already tried this on me! We both know that my genetic code is too complex to be converted into digital code." Snively laughed. "Roboticizer? Oh, this no roboticizer Shadow! This is your end!" He snickered, shaking his head. "Did you really think you could fool me with that fake Emerald?" Amy and Shadow both masterfully hid their astonishment. "What are you talking about? This here's the real Emerald!" Shadow said. "Yeah, there's no fake Emerald here." Said Amy. Snively grinned. "You underestimate me, again. While I was unable to get the security cameras back up, I was able to repair most of the sensors strewn throughout the colony. When you got here, my sensors picked up two readings of Chaos energy in the colony apart from the six in the control room. Since there are only seven Super Emeralds and both energy signatures matched that of a Super Emerald, I easily determined that one was a fake. And since one signature was heading to the control room while one was heading for a power generator, that showed the one heading for the control room was the fake, since there would be no reason for you to head for the control room carrying the real Emerald. Simple logic, my opponents, and overconfidence is what has cost you victory!" He laughed a bit, then continued. "And now, to finally rid myself of that which has been a thorn in my side for all these years! That capsule you are trapped in is none other than an escape pod, Shadow! It's rigged to explode when it leaves the atmospheric hemisphere of the colony. Since you only carry a fake Super Emerald, and since I know from the past that you can't use Chaos Control with a Super Emerald, there is no way to escape! And even if you somehow manage to survive the explosion, the explosive decompression of outer space will finish the job! Ahahahahahaha! So," he said, leering down at the black hedgehog. "Do you have any last words to say?" Shadow paused. "Yes, yes I do." "Well go ahead, say your good-byes. You're not going to be seeing any of these people ever again, you know." Said Snively as he put away the gun and lounged back in his seat. Shadow took a deep breath and looked at Robotnik. "Doctor." He hesitated, a pained look on his face. "Doctor, I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years. You pulled me from that cryogenic capsule, healed me and tried to fix my forgotten memory. You were the one who inspired me the most to start fighting against evil, beginning when Snively first betrayed you. After that, I kept feeling like we were getting closer. You helped introduce me to Amy, and encouraged our first date which ended up in the relationship we have now." He paused, then continued, looking very sad. "I just want to say that I have always thought of you as my father." Robotnik sniffed, tears forming underneath his dark glasses. "Shadow.my son." he whispered to himself. Shadow turned to see Devil. "Devil, you've been my Chao for as long as I can remember. We've been friends for a long time, haven't we?" Devil nodded slowly. "When you evolved to the Chaos level, I was so proud that my Chao was one of the few to ever reach this level, one of the best. I was just as proud when you got your black belt in Chao karate, and won the grand prize at the Chao races." Shadow managed a smile. "But none of that amounts to how proud I am of you now, standing there with an egg, a father. I admit being a little envious that you got to this with Angel before I could with Amy, but I'm still proud of what you've managed to do." He looked at his feet for a moment. "Devil, I want you to promise me something. Take good care of the baby, will you? Enjoy fatherhood, and making a family. I know I never will." Devil stood stock still, eyes watering up. Slowly, finally, Shadow turned to face Amy. "Amy.what can I say? Nothing, except that I'm sorry." "S-sorry for what?" Amy asked, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry for not being able to fulfill my promise to you. I am sorry that neither of us will get to experience the wedded bliss we have been hoping for all these years." He shook his head, reminiscing a little. "You know, when I was first introduced to you, when Robotnik told me Big had created a possible mate for me, I was apprehensive. I didn't want something artificial, something that was a female copy of me. But it turned out you were more than I had ever expected. When we had our first adventure together, when Snively tried to launch the Death Snivel for the first time, you showed incredible skill and prowess. I was starting to like you then. But when he tried to launch it for the third time, with the power of the Master Emerald, we had to use the Chaos and Super Emeralds to transform. Remember that Amy? How we destroyed the ship and Snively's robot weapon together? I think after that is when I first realized how I felt. When I first realized that I loved you." "Shadow." Amy whispered, inaudibly. Shadow looked deep into her eyes. "I love you, Amy. There is nothing more I have to say." Snively snorted. "How revolting. Are you quite done with your sappy speeches and farewells?" Shadow turned around and glared at his enemy. "Yes, I'm done." "Good!" Snively whipped out his gun and fired three shots to his right before anyone could move. The first bullet hit Robotnik in the stomach, rupturing his liver. He gasped in pain and fell over, blood welling up from the hole in his red jacket. The second bullet struck Eggchao between the eyes, ripping a hole through his head. He was dead before he hit the ground. The third and final bullet hit the Chao egg, shattering it and killing the Chao embryo inside. Devil screeched in shock as the pieces of his unborn offspring clattered to the floor. As Shadow, Amy, Angel and Devil looked at Snively in horror, the villain slammed a button on his control panel. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" he yelled as the pod rumbled and was ejected through a hatch that opened and quickly closed in the floor. The capsule could be seen hurtling away from the colony. It reached a certain point and exploded into a million pieces. Devil screamed and ran up to a picture window, pressing his face against the glass and crying. Amy looked out the window in disbelief as the explosion faded and the remaining debris tumbled through space. Shadow was gone, the true love of her life dead. Snively laughed maniacally. "At last! AT LAST! After all these years, I've finally done it! Shadow the Hedgehog is dead! Ahahahahahahaha! The old man isn't dead yet, but will be soon! His pathetic little pet is dead, and that runt of an egg is destroyed as well! All I have to do now is eliminate you, the echidna, the bat and the lizard and all my enemies will be gone forever! Ahahahahahahaha!" He smirked. His eyes had a terrifying insane gleam in them. It was clear that Snively had lost it. "Now Amy, be a good girl and hand over the Super Emerald. I promise to kill you immediately if you do so, sparing you the agony of the slow death I have planned otherwise." Angel started crying, the loss of her baby striking her. Amy stared at him for a few seconds, mouth open, tears streaming from her eyes. "You.you.you MONSTER! YOU'VE KILLED MY CHAO'S BABY! YOU'VE KILLED EGGCHAO! YOU'VE KILLED THE ONLY PERSON I'VE EVER LOVED! IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO HAND OVER THE EMERALD, YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING, BASTARD!" Snively seemed a little taken aback. He turned angry. "You dare talk to me that way?! I am Snively, Emperor of the World! Forget mercy, I'll kill you now!" He put away the gun and readied his walker for combat. "I'm going to do what Shadow never managed to do, and kill you once and for all! This is for Shadow, Snively. DIE!!!!" Tears streaking down their cheeks, Amy and Angel charged towards Snively, both of them fueled by anger beyond belief, one for the loss of her child, one for the loss of her lover.
DR. SNIVELY
Amy smashed into Snively, sending the walker a few steps backwards. She ran forward and started hitting him over and over again with the Passion's hammer, damaging it with each hit. Snively activated his boxing glove, delivering a punch string enough to knock the Passion back quite a bit. Apparently Snively had souped up his walker since their last fight. Snively locked on to Amy and fired, causing damage. Amy ran forward again, firing repeatedly from her cannon while Angel locked on to Snively and fired laser blast after laser blast, each hitting Snively and causing more and more damage. She got really close to Snively and fired the hammer, cannon, and laser all at once, exploding between the two walkers and damaging them both. Snively tried to punch Amy. She responded by immediately blasting the boxing glove, destroying it. Snively started getting more aggressive, running around the room and firing laser blasts at Amy. To avoid the lock on laser, she jumped and hovered in the air, over the range for his laser targeting. He jumped into the air as well, hovering, locking on, and firing a blast at her. Amy fell to the floor, her hovering system temporarily disrupted. Snively stayed in the air and fired multiple blasts from his cannon, a few of which hit Amy as she ran around the room. Snively landed and ran towards her, trying to lock on. Angel tried to lock on to the tyrant, but he jumped and hovered again, shooting more precise cannon blasts. The Passion shook a bit. Amy punched a button on her console. Small hatches opened on her legs. Rockets fired out of the holes, streaming towards Snively. Surprised, he couldn't move away in time and was hit by the dozen explosives. His walker shook terribly. "Wh-where did you get that rocket launcher?!" he shouted. "You stole the weapons in the shuttle, didn't you? Well, if you think they're going to help you, you're wro-" While Snively had been talking, Angel and Amy had both fired their weapons at him, causing more damage. Snively wobbled as the walker shook. "Okay, that does it!" Snively activated his own Rocket Launcher, firing the missiles at Amy. Amy ran right towards Snively, the missiles exploding around and sometimes on her, ramming into Snively and hitting him with her hammer. Snively fired his cannon at extremely close range, damaging both of the walkers. Amy shook it off and started whacking him again with her hammer. Snively locked on and fired at close range. Angel did the same exact thing and both walkers trembled and stepped back, damaged. Snively ran across the room, zigzagging to avoid the shots fired at him. He turned around and pressed another button on his console. The lens on the front of his vehicle started glowing. Amy knew what this meant and started to run out of Snively's line of fire. The evil scientist fired his Power Laser, sweeping the enormous beam towards Amy. As the laser was about to hit her, Amy jumped and hovered over the beam, going towards Snively. She landed right behind him and started whacking him with her hammer before he could turn around and hit her with the Power Laser. When he did turn around, she just hovered over him and kept whacking away with the hammer. Finally, the laser was cut off. Snively shot his cannon, knocking Amy back and damaging both walkers. Amy had enough of playing around. She pressed another button on her walker as Snively locked on and fired a few laser blasts. The jet intake on the front of the Passion on the front of the nozzle started to glow. Snively's eyes widened in surprise. He tried to get out of the way, but was too late. The Power Laser fired, hitting Snively. The massive laser sliced through his defenses, causing massive damage to the Snivel Walker. He screamed and pulled out of the beam, somehow still active! It seemed he had really done a number on the walker to make it strong enough to resist the Power Laser. He used the same strategy Amy had, jumping and hovering over the laser and trying to get behind Amy. However, as he had started to land, Amy spun the Passion around, giving him another dose of the Power Laser at close range. He tried to get away, but since he was already so close, she just kept turning to keep him in the full focus of the beam. Finally, she cut the beam off. Snively's walker creaked and moaned. Smoke was starting to seep from some of the joints. Snively hacked on the smoke, growled, and charged forward, slamming into the Passion. They both fired their cannons and laser blasters at close range, damaging the conditions of their respective vehicles even further. As Snively frantically tried to fire again, Amy and Angel fired all their long-range weapons at once, the cannon, the Laser Blaster, the Rocket Launcher, and the Power Laser. The four attacks hit Snively for incredible damage. His walker quaked and fell to the ground, smoking. Amy and Angel were triumphant, but it seemed to be a hollow victory. Amy looked down, still crying. "Shadow, I did it." she whispered. Angel suddenly yelped, trying to get Amy's attention. Amy looked up and saw the Snivel Walker was on its feet again! "What? No! I beat you!" Snively laughed. "Wrong! As you saw before, I've upgraded my walker! Aside from being stronger, I reinforced the armor with titanium! Those attacks of yours hurt a great deal, but not enough to destroy the Snivel Walker!" He pulled out his gun and fired a very precise bullet at the knee joint of the Passion's left leg. Already damaged enough by the battle, the Passion buckled and fell over, the right leg shorting out. Snively came closer, looming over Amy, who had fallen out of her cockpit. He chuckled and brought his gun to bear. "Well Amy, it seems history has repeated itself. You've lost, like you did back on Prison Island. It seems you are destined to fail, my dear." A smile creeped onto his lips. "This time, nothing is going to stop me from killing you. Say hi to your boyfriend for me when you get to the other side, okay?" His finger tightened on the trigger. There was one thing he hadn't counted on, though. Angel was still sitting behind the Laser Blaster. Despite the weird angle she was at, she had locked on to Snively's gun while he had been talking. As he was about to fire, Angel shot a laser blast, striking the gun and causing it to explode right in Snively's hand. He screamed and clutched his right hand, now burnt and blackened beyond recovery, another body part lost to him. However, this time he would not get a chance to replace with a robotic appendage. Amy stood up, pulling the Piko Piko Hammer from the dimensional pocket. Screaming out a battlecry, she smashed her hammer into the Snivel Walker's left leg. The force of her blow smashed through the reinforced armor and completely destroyed the joints and servos, severing the lower left leg from the rest of the body. Snively wailed as the vehicle toppled over, causing him to fall from his seat. As he grunted and got up, he saw Amy looming over him. She swung the hammer down at him. Snively tried to block it with his right arm. The powerful blow from Amy's hammer broke the robot arm, severing it at the elbow. It fell to the floor, useless. He gaped. Amy cried out and used her Hammer Whirl, smashing into Snively's chest and sent him hurtling into a wall, breaking his artificial ribs. He yelled in pain. He had never actually been hurt directly in a battle with Shadow or the others; the only damage was caused when his final vehicle blew up, costing him a body part. Amy slowly walked over to him, holding the hammer tightly. Snively looked up, trembling, as the pink hedgehog stood over him. "M-mercy, please." he managed to say. "Mercy?" she asked coldly. "When have you ever showed mercy, Snively? To your victims, to my friends and me? To Shadow? No, you deserve no mercy, tyrant. And so I will show you none in return." She raised her hammer high. "I promised never to kill a human. I think for you, I'll make an exception." Snively tried to scurry away, but she planted a foot on his chest to hold him down. She met his eyes. There was fear in them. Good. She brought the hammer down in the most powerful smash she had ever performed. Blood sprayed onto her dress, making it a little redder than before. She dropped the hammer, now soaked with Snively's blood, and walked over to the windows, staring at where the escape pod had exploded. She fell to her knees and began sobbing. Angel fell out of the Laser Blaster seat and limped over to Robotnik, who wasn't dead just yet. She climbed onto his chest and placed her hands around the wound, concentrating. As her healing magic began, the bullet levitated out of the hole, dropping onto the floor. The hole started to seal up. Angel let go, panting, as the wound was sealed up, his liver rapidly healing. Robotnik would be up soon, and able to mourn with the rest of them. Angel got off of Robotnik's chest and limped over to her love, who was still pressed against the window. She touched his shoulder. Devil slowly turned around, his wet eyes staring into her own. They broke down and hugged each other, tears falling to the ground.
It's done. The longest and possibly saddest chapter in the whole Shadow Adventure 2 saga. The next chapter is the last in the Hero Story, and then the Dark will begin. I hope you will keep reading. Please review.
Day X, 11:30 PM
The door slid open. Shadow walked inside. He was inside the colony's control room; a chamber built into the shaft of the cannon. A catwalk led over the abyss to the controls in the center of the room, several circular holographic displays set at multiple levels, a complex control panel and holographic screen, and in the very center of the cylindrical mass, a pillar with seven sockets in it. A tube-like mechanism was positioned over the center of the pillar, a beam of blue light shooting from the mechanism and into the pillar. Six of the seven sockets were filled with glowing Super Emeralds. One remained empty. Shadow was relieved to finally be here, and not out in the hallways. For some reason, something about the ARK was vaguely familiar to him. Whenever he passed an intersection, he felt like there had once been somebody he had known, lots of people he had once met but were long gone. Shadow pulled out the fake Emerald and switched on his communicator. "Doctor, I've made it to the control room. What do I do now?" There was no reply. "Come on doc, talk me through this." There was still no reply. "Hello? Doctor Robotnik? Can you hear me?" "Oh, I can hear you loud and clear, Shadow." Said a nefarious voice at the other end. Shadow gasped. "Snively! What have you done with Robotnik?" Snively giggled malevolently. "Nothing, yet. If you want to save the dear doctor, the egg, and the Chao from certain death, meet me at observation deck B. I'm sure you can get there with the map that the doctor must have provided you." Shadow grimaced. "Yes, I can get there." "Good! You have five minutes. Get here too late, and the doctor, the Chao, and the egg die. Tata!" Snively cut off the line. Shadow immediately called Amy. "Amy, come in! Do you read me ?" "Loud and clear, Shadow. What is it?" she said. "Snively's got Robotnik and the Chao cornered at observation deck B! Meet me there, quickly. I don't have much time." said Shadow. "Got that, Shadow. See you soon!" Amy cut off the line. Shadow started to head for the door. He paused and turned, looking longingly at the empty socket and wishing he could just put the Emerald in and be done with it. He sighed and ran out the door.
Stage 12: Crazy Gadget. Mission: Hurry and find Snively.
Shadow started in a huge green hallway, with a very high ceiling and cool transparent flooring. He ran down the hallway, turning left as it curved that way, taking out the floating blob of Artificial Chaos in his path. He ran as far as he could and found a grating blocking his way, going up most of the height of the hallway. Noticing a large switch in front of him, Shadow thought this would be the way to lower the grating. He flipped the switch and was astonished when suddenly, gravity was reversed! He fell through the air, quickly activating his jets and landing on the ceiling. After taking a moment to adjust his bearings, he realized he could no go over, er, under the grating. He walked across the ceiling, noticing that right past the grating was a huge pool of toxic waste. Good thing he wasn't down there. He ran to the end of the ceiling, finding another switch. He flipped it, and was flung back to the ground below. He landed on normal floor, past the toxic waste. He ran through the corridor ahead, coming into a tall room with two pod machines next to a tube with an opening facing him. Guarding the tube were two Hunters with laser guns and shields. The robots raised their big shields, hiding from the danger he represented. Shadow somersaulted under the shields, destroying the robots. He jumped into the tube and was shot upward like a cannonball, coming out in a room with a huge toxic waste pit and a bridge leading right over it, stopping in front of a switch and a wall that almost touched the ceiling. Shadow ran down the bridge and hit the switch. He was flung onto the room's ceiling. He somersaulted under the wall and continued on his way. The room on the other end was tall as the last one, but not very big. Shadow hit another switch, landing on the floor again. He went through a corridor and came out in yet another huge hallway, with a toxic waste pit in front of him. He saw a rail over the waste and jumped on, grinding down its length. The rail ended at a platform in front of another pit of toxic waste. Shadow jumped onto a second rail and grinded over it, ending up on solid ground. He went forward, following into a deeper part of the room, where he was faced with a gravity switch and a floating Artificial Chaos. He killed the blob, then hit the switch, reversing gravity. Once he was on the ceiling, he saw a group of electrified Beetles and a hole in the ceiling, He ran by the Beetles and down the hole, falling into a corridor. He ran down the corridor, in the direction where the gravity switch had been in the last room, and came to a door that opened automatically as he approached. He went into the tall room and found another cool tube. He jumped into the tube and was shot to another chamber, coming out on the roof of a long room. He saw a few Artificial Chaos, which started shooting lasers at him. Shadow ran for the monsters, putting them out of their misery with a couple of homing attacks. He ran towards the wall at the end of the ceiling, where he flipped a gravity switch and landed on the floor, near lots of metal and iron crates. He hit a spring in the corner of the room, landing on the higher floor of the next room, passing under the wall on the ceiling. In front of him was another toxic pit, with a rail on either side. He chose a rail and grinded down it, coming to solid ground. A high wall almost touched the ceiling, a gravity switch at its base. Shadow flipped the gravity switch and landed on the ceiling. He somersaulted under the wall and continued on his way. He ran down the ceiling, hitting a gravity switch at the end and landing on solid ground after a toxic pit. He ran through a door and found himself on a ledge out in space. He could see several dozen floating Artificial Chaos hovering over the gap, the door back in on the other side. Shadow Homing Attacked across the chain of Artificial Chaos, landing on the ledge and running through the door. He entered a room with a pit of toxic waste in the middle and a gravity switch on the end. There was a bridge over the pit. Shadow ran across and saw for the first time, a blob of Artificial Chaos guarding the switch. As he was about to attack, the machine, the water fell off of the robot head, forming into several dozen miniature Artificial Chaos. Shadow ran back down the bridge, not wanting to get mobbed by the monsters. He curled into a ball and started spinning, charging up an attack. As lights swirled around him, he got up, a glowing hedgehog. "There's no time for games!" he yelled, before unleashing the Light Attack and wiping out every Artificial Chaos in the room. Now on the other side, Shadow hit the gravity switch and fell onto the ceiling. He somersaulted under the low wall ahead of him and hit another gravity switch, falling to the ground in front of another toxic pit. There were several floating platforms moving across the pit. Shadow jumped across the platforms, smashing Beetles that were guarding some of them. He reached the other end of the pit, entering the room beyond. Inside was another tube mechanism guarded by a pair of Shield Hunters. Shadow made quick work of the robots and jumped into the tube, shot upwards to another room. He popped out of the tube and saw he was in a corridor with a couple of Hornets. He destroyed the Hornets before they could shoot him, going through the door at the other end. He was in a room containing a long red beam with swinging spiked balls and a Beetle atop it. A door was the end. Shadow walked along the beam, jumped over the spiked balls, Homing Attacked the Beetle, and ran through the door. He was in another long room, with a barrier preventing him from walking forward. He flipped a gravity switch, landing on the ceiling. Shadow found a missile and a button to activate it. He stepped on the button, firing the missile towards a cage containing a gravity switch and destroying it. (The cage, not the switch.) Shadow ran along the ceiling and hit the switch, landing behind the barrier and in front of a catwalk between two small toxic pits. An Artificial Chaos similar to the one that had spawned miniatures before floated in the middle of the walkway. Warily, Shadow approached the robot. The Artificial Chaos spawned several dozen offspring, just as Shadow had expected. He ran back, to the edge of the barricade and curled into a ball, charging up. The spawn of Artificial Chaos wriggled closer and closer. Lights raced around Shadow. He stood up, glowing. "There's no time for games!" he yelled, unleashing the Light Attack and killing all the silicon lifeforms. He ran down the catwalk and into an alcove with a gravity switch. He flipped it, and was sent up through a hole in the alcove, falling, falling, falling, until he reached the ceiling of another huge room with plenty of enemies scattered about on multiple walls, and a big, big toxic pit on the floor. Shadow bit his lip and ran down the ceiling, destroying every Artificial Chaos in his path. At the end of the room were three gravity switches, one pointing left, one pointing down, and one pointing right. Shadow looked down and saw the toxic pit, so that obviously wasn't the right choice. He looked left and saw nothing but lots of enemies and a gravity switch that would send him to the right wall. Shrugging, he flipped the switch on the right, and was sent towards the right hand wall. He saw a rail going down and under the wall the gravity switches had been at the base at, probably leading to the exit. He killed the Hawks and Artificial Chaos in his way and jumped onto the rail, grinding down it, going inches over the toxic waste as he went under the wall and into a wide, low tunnel. The rail ended on the right wall, of course, where he flipped a gravity switch pointing downwards, landing on a platform in front of a door. He went through the door and found himself in a room with two toxic pits, a door at the far end, and another Artificial Chaos. Not wanting to bother with the spawn again, Shadow ran towards the monster and jumped up right as it unleashed its offspring, launching into a Homing Attack and destroying the monster and the little ones. He went through the door at the end, entering a room with two electric Beetles and a chain of normal ones over a pit of toxic waste. He ran to the edge of the pit and waited for the Beetles' electric shields to go down. When he did, he launched into a series of Homing Attacks, getting across the pit and running through the door at the other end. He groaned when he saw what was on the other side. He was in space again. Floating before him were several huge colored blocks, each with multiple sides, enemies, and gravity switches. There were crates, missiles, and rockets over the expanse. Right in front of him was a rocket aiming for a yellow block. He sighed and grabbed on. The rocket launched, dropping him on the highest face of the yellow block. He killed an Artificial Chaos and hit a spring, launching towards the blue block above him. Just as he thought he was going to land on it, he fell onto the lower tier of the yellow block. He followed the block to the left, finding a gravity switch. He flipped it and was sent up to the underside of the blue block. He saw a rocket near the edge and grabbed it, launching towards the red block. As he passed under it, he let go of the rocket, landing on the block's bottom. He killed the Artificial Chaos around him and saw a gravity switch. He flipped the switch, landing on the purple block below him, next to a cage containing a spring. He walked forward and to the right along the block's top, seeing a chain of stationary Beetles. He homing attacked along and up them, landing on top of the red block above the purple one. He ran to the edge of the red block, seeing he could jump to the blue one. He did so, landing on the top. He killed half a dozen Artificial Chaos and saw a missile aiming for the cage on the purple platform. He pressed the button behind the missile, launching it and destroying the cage. He ran onto a nearby spring and was launched across the gap, landing on the purple platform. He hit the spring and was launched into the air. He bounced of a hovering spring and landed on a part of the yellow block he had not noticed before. He hit the gravity switch nearby and was sent sideways, landing on the green block, next to a normal switch. He hit the switch, activating a rocket nearby. He ran to the edge of the face of the green block and jumped down, landing on a lower tier with the aforementioned rocket on it. He killed the Artificial Chaos in his way and grabbed onto the rocket, launching himself for a block below all the others. He dropped onto the block's face as he went past, landing near a Gravity Switch. He flipped the switch and was sent all the way across the void, landing on the colony's wall. Below him was a gravity switch and a ledge. Shadow ran down the wall and hit the switch, returning gravity to its normal orientation and landing on the ledge. He ran through the door on the ledge, back inside at last. He was in another room with a floating Artificial Chaos and two toxic pits. Shadow ran and jumped towards the robot, using a Homing Attack on it just before it released its children. He ran past where it had been, hitting a spring at the end of the room. He was shot upwards, landing on a high ledge. He ran through the door on the ledge and was in a room with two Shield Hunters and another tube contraption. As the Hunters took aim, Shadow somersaulted under one's shield, destroying it. He repeated the process with the second robot, clearing the room. He jumped into the tube and was shot upward, coming out in a corridor filled with Artificial Chaos, all of which started firing lasers or tried to grab them with their tentacles. With a great deal of difficulty, Shadow eliminated the machines and proceeded down the corridor, finally ending up in the hallway with doors in the sides, indicating he was out of the danger zone. He jumped through the Goal Ring at the middle of the hallway, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Shadow checked his map and went towards one of the doors in the hallway. It slowly opened as he approached, raising upwards. He went through, the door closing behind him. He was in a large round room with half of the walls covered in big picture windows. The floor was split by a metal cross of sorts, with most of the floor being made of unbreakable glass, giving a person an unobstructed view of the Earth from space. Amy and Angel were in the walker right next to the door. Amy smiled a little as he walked next to them. Shadow smiled back. At the other end of the room, Snively sat in the Snivel Walker, his gun pointed towards Robotnik. A very worried Eggchao clutched his master's leg. Devil held on tightly to the egg, looking a little scared. Snively sneered and waved the gun a little. "Ah, Shadow, you're right on time. A few seconds later and I would have put a bullet through the old man's head." "What do you want, Snively?" asked Shadow. "I know you have the Super Emerald. Come over here and give it to me, and I will let your friends go." Snively said, reaching his free hand out. Shadow kept his expression calm, smiling inside. Perfect! I can kill two birds with one stone! He thought. He pulled out the fake Emerald and started walking across the room. "I'm coming Snively. Just don't hurt the doctor or the deal's off." "I won't hurt him, Shadow. However, I expect you not to play any tricks, or the doctor gets a new breathing hole." Snively said evilly. Robotnik gulped. Shadow walked over the center of the room, where the intersection of the cross was. Suddenly, a glass tube with a weird gadget inside the top shot down from the ceiling, trapping him! He blinked, surprised. "What is this Snively, a roboticizer? You've already tried this on me! We both know that my genetic code is too complex to be converted into digital code." Snively laughed. "Roboticizer? Oh, this no roboticizer Shadow! This is your end!" He snickered, shaking his head. "Did you really think you could fool me with that fake Emerald?" Amy and Shadow both masterfully hid their astonishment. "What are you talking about? This here's the real Emerald!" Shadow said. "Yeah, there's no fake Emerald here." Said Amy. Snively grinned. "You underestimate me, again. While I was unable to get the security cameras back up, I was able to repair most of the sensors strewn throughout the colony. When you got here, my sensors picked up two readings of Chaos energy in the colony apart from the six in the control room. Since there are only seven Super Emeralds and both energy signatures matched that of a Super Emerald, I easily determined that one was a fake. And since one signature was heading to the control room while one was heading for a power generator, that showed the one heading for the control room was the fake, since there would be no reason for you to head for the control room carrying the real Emerald. Simple logic, my opponents, and overconfidence is what has cost you victory!" He laughed a bit, then continued. "And now, to finally rid myself of that which has been a thorn in my side for all these years! That capsule you are trapped in is none other than an escape pod, Shadow! It's rigged to explode when it leaves the atmospheric hemisphere of the colony. Since you only carry a fake Super Emerald, and since I know from the past that you can't use Chaos Control with a Super Emerald, there is no way to escape! And even if you somehow manage to survive the explosion, the explosive decompression of outer space will finish the job! Ahahahahahaha! So," he said, leering down at the black hedgehog. "Do you have any last words to say?" Shadow paused. "Yes, yes I do." "Well go ahead, say your good-byes. You're not going to be seeing any of these people ever again, you know." Said Snively as he put away the gun and lounged back in his seat. Shadow took a deep breath and looked at Robotnik. "Doctor." He hesitated, a pained look on his face. "Doctor, I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years. You pulled me from that cryogenic capsule, healed me and tried to fix my forgotten memory. You were the one who inspired me the most to start fighting against evil, beginning when Snively first betrayed you. After that, I kept feeling like we were getting closer. You helped introduce me to Amy, and encouraged our first date which ended up in the relationship we have now." He paused, then continued, looking very sad. "I just want to say that I have always thought of you as my father." Robotnik sniffed, tears forming underneath his dark glasses. "Shadow.my son." he whispered to himself. Shadow turned to see Devil. "Devil, you've been my Chao for as long as I can remember. We've been friends for a long time, haven't we?" Devil nodded slowly. "When you evolved to the Chaos level, I was so proud that my Chao was one of the few to ever reach this level, one of the best. I was just as proud when you got your black belt in Chao karate, and won the grand prize at the Chao races." Shadow managed a smile. "But none of that amounts to how proud I am of you now, standing there with an egg, a father. I admit being a little envious that you got to this with Angel before I could with Amy, but I'm still proud of what you've managed to do." He looked at his feet for a moment. "Devil, I want you to promise me something. Take good care of the baby, will you? Enjoy fatherhood, and making a family. I know I never will." Devil stood stock still, eyes watering up. Slowly, finally, Shadow turned to face Amy. "Amy.what can I say? Nothing, except that I'm sorry." "S-sorry for what?" Amy asked, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry for not being able to fulfill my promise to you. I am sorry that neither of us will get to experience the wedded bliss we have been hoping for all these years." He shook his head, reminiscing a little. "You know, when I was first introduced to you, when Robotnik told me Big had created a possible mate for me, I was apprehensive. I didn't want something artificial, something that was a female copy of me. But it turned out you were more than I had ever expected. When we had our first adventure together, when Snively tried to launch the Death Snivel for the first time, you showed incredible skill and prowess. I was starting to like you then. But when he tried to launch it for the third time, with the power of the Master Emerald, we had to use the Chaos and Super Emeralds to transform. Remember that Amy? How we destroyed the ship and Snively's robot weapon together? I think after that is when I first realized how I felt. When I first realized that I loved you." "Shadow." Amy whispered, inaudibly. Shadow looked deep into her eyes. "I love you, Amy. There is nothing more I have to say." Snively snorted. "How revolting. Are you quite done with your sappy speeches and farewells?" Shadow turned around and glared at his enemy. "Yes, I'm done." "Good!" Snively whipped out his gun and fired three shots to his right before anyone could move. The first bullet hit Robotnik in the stomach, rupturing his liver. He gasped in pain and fell over, blood welling up from the hole in his red jacket. The second bullet struck Eggchao between the eyes, ripping a hole through his head. He was dead before he hit the ground. The third and final bullet hit the Chao egg, shattering it and killing the Chao embryo inside. Devil screeched in shock as the pieces of his unborn offspring clattered to the floor. As Shadow, Amy, Angel and Devil looked at Snively in horror, the villain slammed a button on his control panel. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" he yelled as the pod rumbled and was ejected through a hatch that opened and quickly closed in the floor. The capsule could be seen hurtling away from the colony. It reached a certain point and exploded into a million pieces. Devil screamed and ran up to a picture window, pressing his face against the glass and crying. Amy looked out the window in disbelief as the explosion faded and the remaining debris tumbled through space. Shadow was gone, the true love of her life dead. Snively laughed maniacally. "At last! AT LAST! After all these years, I've finally done it! Shadow the Hedgehog is dead! Ahahahahahahaha! The old man isn't dead yet, but will be soon! His pathetic little pet is dead, and that runt of an egg is destroyed as well! All I have to do now is eliminate you, the echidna, the bat and the lizard and all my enemies will be gone forever! Ahahahahahahaha!" He smirked. His eyes had a terrifying insane gleam in them. It was clear that Snively had lost it. "Now Amy, be a good girl and hand over the Super Emerald. I promise to kill you immediately if you do so, sparing you the agony of the slow death I have planned otherwise." Angel started crying, the loss of her baby striking her. Amy stared at him for a few seconds, mouth open, tears streaming from her eyes. "You.you.you MONSTER! YOU'VE KILLED MY CHAO'S BABY! YOU'VE KILLED EGGCHAO! YOU'VE KILLED THE ONLY PERSON I'VE EVER LOVED! IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO HAND OVER THE EMERALD, YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING, BASTARD!" Snively seemed a little taken aback. He turned angry. "You dare talk to me that way?! I am Snively, Emperor of the World! Forget mercy, I'll kill you now!" He put away the gun and readied his walker for combat. "I'm going to do what Shadow never managed to do, and kill you once and for all! This is for Shadow, Snively. DIE!!!!" Tears streaking down their cheeks, Amy and Angel charged towards Snively, both of them fueled by anger beyond belief, one for the loss of her child, one for the loss of her lover.
DR. SNIVELY
Amy smashed into Snively, sending the walker a few steps backwards. She ran forward and started hitting him over and over again with the Passion's hammer, damaging it with each hit. Snively activated his boxing glove, delivering a punch string enough to knock the Passion back quite a bit. Apparently Snively had souped up his walker since their last fight. Snively locked on to Amy and fired, causing damage. Amy ran forward again, firing repeatedly from her cannon while Angel locked on to Snively and fired laser blast after laser blast, each hitting Snively and causing more and more damage. She got really close to Snively and fired the hammer, cannon, and laser all at once, exploding between the two walkers and damaging them both. Snively tried to punch Amy. She responded by immediately blasting the boxing glove, destroying it. Snively started getting more aggressive, running around the room and firing laser blasts at Amy. To avoid the lock on laser, she jumped and hovered in the air, over the range for his laser targeting. He jumped into the air as well, hovering, locking on, and firing a blast at her. Amy fell to the floor, her hovering system temporarily disrupted. Snively stayed in the air and fired multiple blasts from his cannon, a few of which hit Amy as she ran around the room. Snively landed and ran towards her, trying to lock on. Angel tried to lock on to the tyrant, but he jumped and hovered again, shooting more precise cannon blasts. The Passion shook a bit. Amy punched a button on her console. Small hatches opened on her legs. Rockets fired out of the holes, streaming towards Snively. Surprised, he couldn't move away in time and was hit by the dozen explosives. His walker shook terribly. "Wh-where did you get that rocket launcher?!" he shouted. "You stole the weapons in the shuttle, didn't you? Well, if you think they're going to help you, you're wro-" While Snively had been talking, Angel and Amy had both fired their weapons at him, causing more damage. Snively wobbled as the walker shook. "Okay, that does it!" Snively activated his own Rocket Launcher, firing the missiles at Amy. Amy ran right towards Snively, the missiles exploding around and sometimes on her, ramming into Snively and hitting him with her hammer. Snively fired his cannon at extremely close range, damaging both of the walkers. Amy shook it off and started whacking him again with her hammer. Snively locked on and fired at close range. Angel did the same exact thing and both walkers trembled and stepped back, damaged. Snively ran across the room, zigzagging to avoid the shots fired at him. He turned around and pressed another button on his console. The lens on the front of his vehicle started glowing. Amy knew what this meant and started to run out of Snively's line of fire. The evil scientist fired his Power Laser, sweeping the enormous beam towards Amy. As the laser was about to hit her, Amy jumped and hovered over the beam, going towards Snively. She landed right behind him and started whacking him with her hammer before he could turn around and hit her with the Power Laser. When he did turn around, she just hovered over him and kept whacking away with the hammer. Finally, the laser was cut off. Snively shot his cannon, knocking Amy back and damaging both walkers. Amy had enough of playing around. She pressed another button on her walker as Snively locked on and fired a few laser blasts. The jet intake on the front of the Passion on the front of the nozzle started to glow. Snively's eyes widened in surprise. He tried to get out of the way, but was too late. The Power Laser fired, hitting Snively. The massive laser sliced through his defenses, causing massive damage to the Snivel Walker. He screamed and pulled out of the beam, somehow still active! It seemed he had really done a number on the walker to make it strong enough to resist the Power Laser. He used the same strategy Amy had, jumping and hovering over the laser and trying to get behind Amy. However, as he had started to land, Amy spun the Passion around, giving him another dose of the Power Laser at close range. He tried to get away, but since he was already so close, she just kept turning to keep him in the full focus of the beam. Finally, she cut the beam off. Snively's walker creaked and moaned. Smoke was starting to seep from some of the joints. Snively hacked on the smoke, growled, and charged forward, slamming into the Passion. They both fired their cannons and laser blasters at close range, damaging the conditions of their respective vehicles even further. As Snively frantically tried to fire again, Amy and Angel fired all their long-range weapons at once, the cannon, the Laser Blaster, the Rocket Launcher, and the Power Laser. The four attacks hit Snively for incredible damage. His walker quaked and fell to the ground, smoking. Amy and Angel were triumphant, but it seemed to be a hollow victory. Amy looked down, still crying. "Shadow, I did it." she whispered. Angel suddenly yelped, trying to get Amy's attention. Amy looked up and saw the Snivel Walker was on its feet again! "What? No! I beat you!" Snively laughed. "Wrong! As you saw before, I've upgraded my walker! Aside from being stronger, I reinforced the armor with titanium! Those attacks of yours hurt a great deal, but not enough to destroy the Snivel Walker!" He pulled out his gun and fired a very precise bullet at the knee joint of the Passion's left leg. Already damaged enough by the battle, the Passion buckled and fell over, the right leg shorting out. Snively came closer, looming over Amy, who had fallen out of her cockpit. He chuckled and brought his gun to bear. "Well Amy, it seems history has repeated itself. You've lost, like you did back on Prison Island. It seems you are destined to fail, my dear." A smile creeped onto his lips. "This time, nothing is going to stop me from killing you. Say hi to your boyfriend for me when you get to the other side, okay?" His finger tightened on the trigger. There was one thing he hadn't counted on, though. Angel was still sitting behind the Laser Blaster. Despite the weird angle she was at, she had locked on to Snively's gun while he had been talking. As he was about to fire, Angel shot a laser blast, striking the gun and causing it to explode right in Snively's hand. He screamed and clutched his right hand, now burnt and blackened beyond recovery, another body part lost to him. However, this time he would not get a chance to replace with a robotic appendage. Amy stood up, pulling the Piko Piko Hammer from the dimensional pocket. Screaming out a battlecry, she smashed her hammer into the Snivel Walker's left leg. The force of her blow smashed through the reinforced armor and completely destroyed the joints and servos, severing the lower left leg from the rest of the body. Snively wailed as the vehicle toppled over, causing him to fall from his seat. As he grunted and got up, he saw Amy looming over him. She swung the hammer down at him. Snively tried to block it with his right arm. The powerful blow from Amy's hammer broke the robot arm, severing it at the elbow. It fell to the floor, useless. He gaped. Amy cried out and used her Hammer Whirl, smashing into Snively's chest and sent him hurtling into a wall, breaking his artificial ribs. He yelled in pain. He had never actually been hurt directly in a battle with Shadow or the others; the only damage was caused when his final vehicle blew up, costing him a body part. Amy slowly walked over to him, holding the hammer tightly. Snively looked up, trembling, as the pink hedgehog stood over him. "M-mercy, please." he managed to say. "Mercy?" she asked coldly. "When have you ever showed mercy, Snively? To your victims, to my friends and me? To Shadow? No, you deserve no mercy, tyrant. And so I will show you none in return." She raised her hammer high. "I promised never to kill a human. I think for you, I'll make an exception." Snively tried to scurry away, but she planted a foot on his chest to hold him down. She met his eyes. There was fear in them. Good. She brought the hammer down in the most powerful smash she had ever performed. Blood sprayed onto her dress, making it a little redder than before. She dropped the hammer, now soaked with Snively's blood, and walked over to the windows, staring at where the escape pod had exploded. She fell to her knees and began sobbing. Angel fell out of the Laser Blaster seat and limped over to Robotnik, who wasn't dead just yet. She climbed onto his chest and placed her hands around the wound, concentrating. As her healing magic began, the bullet levitated out of the hole, dropping onto the floor. The hole started to seal up. Angel let go, panting, as the wound was sealed up, his liver rapidly healing. Robotnik would be up soon, and able to mourn with the rest of them. Angel got off of Robotnik's chest and limped over to her love, who was still pressed against the window. She touched his shoulder. Devil slowly turned around, his wet eyes staring into her own. They broke down and hugged each other, tears falling to the ground.
It's done. The longest and possibly saddest chapter in the whole Shadow Adventure 2 saga. The next chapter is the last in the Hero Story, and then the Dark will begin. I hope you will keep reading. Please review.